| a. | 1. | Proceeding from, and characterized by, the imagination, generally in the highest sense of the word. |
| 2. | Given to imagining; full of images, fancies, etc.; having a quick imagination; conceptive; creative. | |
| 3. | Unreasonably suspicious; jealous. |
| Adj. | 1. | imaginative - (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action; "an imaginative use of material"; "the invention of the knitting frame by another ingenious English clergyman"- Lewis Mumford; "an ingenious device"; "had an inventive turn of mind"; "inventive ceramics" |